Pip Hinman

Despite the federal government's attempts to restrict the protests against US President George Bush, organisers of the Canberra rally on October 23 are confident it will be huge. Buses from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and towns across

Just four months ago, when Bush declared "major combat operations" in Iraq to be over, the US ruling class was sure its gamble to break international law, dismiss the UN and go against the unprecedented global opposition to the war

SYDNEY — At its September 15 meeting, attended by more than 60 people, the newly formed Stop the War Coalition decided to organise a giant protest when US President George Bush visits Australia in late October. Seventeen

SYDNEY — David Hicks, who has been held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for almost two years. His father, Terry, told 130 people attending a public meeting at the Trades Hall Auditorium on September 20 that he

BY PIP HINMAN& VANNESSA HEARMAN The Kopassus chief, Commander Major General Sriyanto, invited to Australia to cement a military deal with Canberra, will shortly be tried for human rights abuses in Indonesia. Sriyanto, who graduated from the

The Malaysian government is determined to deport Acehnese refugees who have attempted to apply for refugee status with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Kuala Lumpur. The Indonesian coordinating

SYDNEY — After trying for months to split the Walk Against the War Coalition (WAWC), the ALP finally managed to get its way on August 18. At a special meeting of the coalition, attended by close to 100 people, the ALP mustered the

The 58th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima takes place in a year that has been marked by the biggest mass anti-war protests ever to take place before a war had been launched. Some 30 million people took part in the

The Indonesian government has an almost "pathological hostility to separatism", Dr Ed Aspinall, lecturer in South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University, told a forum on July 2.

BY PIP HINMAN & STUART MUNCKTON As news of Indonesian military atrocities in Aceh — including girls as young as six being raped — spreads, so does the solidarity with the Acehnese people's struggle for democracy. On June 5, 33 people gathered

SYDNEY — With the likelihood of all-out war erupting in Aceh, solidarity campaigners have launched an emergency campaign directed at getting the Australian government to end military ties with Indonesia and pressure Jakarta to get

Scenes of exuberant "liberated" Iraqis and Kurds have quickly given way to scenes of concern and anger that the US "liberators" are preparing to be occupiers. Even the Sydney Morning Herald's pro-war correspondent Paul McGeough has